Book Reviewed in this article: Bravo, Michael and Sverker Sorlin (eds.). Narrating the Arctic. A cultural history of Nordic scientific practices. Bryce, Trevor. Life and society in the Hittite world. Caplan, Lionel. Children of colonialism. Anglo‐Indians in a postcolonial World. Couldry, Nick. Media rituals. A critical approach. Crehan, Kate. Gramsci, culture and anthropology. Emoff, Ron, and David Henderson (eds.). Mementos, artifacts, and hallucinations from the ethnographer's tent. Illouz, Charles. De chair et de pierre. Essai de mythologie kanak, Maré‐Iles Loyauté. Lawrence, Geoffrey, Vaughan Higgins and Stewart Lockie (eds.). Environment, society and natural resource management. Theoretical perspectives from Australiasia and the Americas. Lewin, Ellen, and William L. Leap (eds.). Out in theory. The emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology. Long, Norman. Development sociology. Actor perspectives. Sillitoe, Paul, Alan Bicker and Johan Pottier (eds.). Participating in development. Approaches to indigenous knowledge.

Social Anthropology

Anthropologie sociale

Volume 11 Issue 3

Un sujet en souffrance? Récit de soi, violence et magie à Java1

Action, personhood and the gift economy among so‐called street children in Mexico City*

Constitutive violence and the nationalist imaginary. Antagonism and defensive solidarity in ‘Palestine’ and ‘former Yugoslavia’*

From the Colonial Exhibition to the Museum of Man. An alternative genealogy of French anthropology*

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‘Culture is no excuse’. Critiquing multicultural essentialism and identifying the anthropological concrete

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